Mike PLEASE READ
u need to know that. 😀
Some Filmmakers of E.T want to “catch” the New Mexico hidden games of E.T for Atari. My english is very bad so maybe google translate is enought. CLICK -> http://bit.ly/11gLIfB

K.C.’s Crazy Chase! is much better with The Voice. You can also program your own levels. Bowling!, Basketball!, Football!, and Type & Tell! are also cool. You should do a J&M Play / Board James Crossover with Conquest of the World!.

I have an Odyssey 2 console operational too!
I love all the games u showed on this video, they made my childhood just as many atari games, and i must disagree in fact the O2 is far superior then atari 2600.

Btw, in Brazil, Pete, was called Didi, a famous actor and comediant from the 80s… intersting discover that Pete is his real name ehhe GJ guys as aways.

What a coincidence. This was my first video game console. It wasn’t the first video game I ever played; that honor goes to Space Invaders. But this was the first console I ever had, prior to the Atari 2600.

Hey, Mike and James. Just watched the new video, and was pleased to see this series continue. Also know that what both of you do is EXTREMELY appreciated. When I’m having a bad one (which has been often lately) this site has become my go to. So thanks for that. Cinemassacre rules. Cheers.

We have a great exhibition about Video Games at the museum where I work and we have a Odyssey 2 wth a game called Showdown in 2100 A.D. It’s a Cowboy Duel game and it’s just awesome !!! You should try to find it!

Now you can’t have a console on your lap, you cannot stand up.
I tried to even lift (do i even lift?) the PS3 a friend has…it’s the old model….must be ‘Murica.
I cannot even imagine the Xbox One, that turd of a VCR, how much will weight.
Anyway, some games on this Odyssey II were really cool, i know the console but i never saw, before, games. Almost wish i have one right now. 🙂

Amazing gems you guys manage to get your hands on!
On another note: hey Mike, I’ve seen footage recently of Luigi’s Mansion in one of your recent videos. Any chance of you reviewing that soon? I wanna hear your fist impressions of all those weird sounding ghosts! Also, that game has one of my favorite soundtracks! Love to hear what you think about that also.

The Odyssey 2 was my family’s first console too. Some of my fondest memories:

1) Asking for and receiving the cartridge “Assembly Language Programming.” I never could get any kind of workable program running, but it did prime me for my later career as a computer geek.

2) Designing a K.C. Munchkin maze that could be played indefinitely. All you need to do is create a wall that runs around the outer edge of the board, plus a corridor that drops down to the player’s starting position above the monster pen. The dots (which move around randomly) always start in the corners, and the ghosts always start below the pen, so there’s no way to lose. I did that shit for at least an hour, racking up an incredibly high score.

3) I wondered what would happen in “Alien Invaders Plus” if you didn’t shoot the aliens for a long time, like would they descend all the way to the ground like they did in “Space Invaders.” So one day I started a game, then sneakily turned the TV off before leaving for school. When I got back home I raced downstairs to see if anything interesting had happened, but no, they’d just descended to a low level and stayed there. Disappointing, but I was proud that I’d managed to conduct a covert experiment under my parents’ radar.

It’s really nice to have a weekly JMP for the next couple months. After working 18 hours, these videos help me unwind.
I never would’ve thought the Odyssey II had decent games after what I saw from the Odyssey I. And someone needs to get started on that Batman Star Wars screenplay. http://imgur.com/mOgwj71

Haha, that was a cool video. The Odyssey2 doesn’t seem like a system I could really get behind…especially since the Atari 2600 and Intellivision and Colecovision were out around the same time frame and they were vastly better systems with much better games. Anyways, you should do a whole bunch of these videos to whet our appetites as we wait for more AVGN episodes and (most importantly) the AVGN movie!

Hey James and Mike! Been looking at and enjoying your videos for a while now, but I only just registered because now I finally got something to say.

I was hoping one of you’d do something about the Odyssey 2 some time, and my wishes were finally granted it seems.

The Odyssey 2 was also the first console I ever played one, just like you James! It’s called the ‘Philips G7000’ here in the Netherlands however, but it’s the same thing. I’m a little younger than you are, the console was my mother’s so I played it in the early nineties. Still have it and most of it’s games to this day.

Glad to see both of you guys enjoyed it, I agree, it’s an awesome system. My favorite game was ‘Gunfighter’, it’s a nice multiplayer game. It’s game #14, if American versions are similarly numbered at least. I also liked the Basketball game, which I think is #6, and the racing game you guys played! You two should try Gunfighter, if you have it. I dare to say it’s better than Combat.

Lastly, about the Quest for the Rings game, that’s actually a pretty good and elaborate RPG game. I have it complete and boxed myself, it comes with a map, a board and pawns like a board game, coins and a big manual explaining everything.

Found out that there isn’t too much that know about this system aronud here until I got luckly to find one with The voice, games, and the system box in the city wide cleanup here few weeks ago. Weird luck?

A little unfortunate you glossed over KC Munchin. It was perhaps the most notable game of the system because the developer was forced to pull it off of shelves after a lawsuit for being too much like pac-man. Luckily it didn’t pave the way for this kind of thing to occur too often, as KC Munching is probably different enough from pac-man by todays standards to have also been released. This game was far better than Atai’s pac-man on the 2600 and the inability to release this would be killer app very likely led to the downfall of the Odyssey 2.

Hello Jame and Mike i would like to ask you a question? It about the new “Xbox One” i think it a piece of shit that someone in Microsoft was saying on drug hey you know what like mind fuck everyone for this new system and make more money like hell i be even million time riches and they can be more poorer as fuck. I like the idea of old and new together but it get to one point, this system is like Sega genesis, Xbox is on live support with kinect saying it a big thing. i say the kinect is like cd drive, it a part of they system that you dont need it fuck me over so many time on 360 it say it better it same old technology just slowly improve. it also well watch you and give you trophy or even achievement for your daily route, okay so if i wake up one day i get a achievement let me see if i don’t wake up i get a achievement call this “Nice job your died and your soul belong to Microsoft which secretly being headquarter of upper world of hell”. As well for old game they don’t transfer over to new one as well you must go to gamestop or local game company get a code for those game download the game oh and also have to buy your way to play the game? What the hell are you doing Microsoft. It like Microsoft just right now kicking me in the ball and back of my brain pushing there dick up to my face saying you want to play your game well you cant till you pay me more money. This system is dog,cat,bull,alien,inhuman shit all warp up in a gold box said made of gold but made out of yellow paint and make it shined saying “if you buy this we wont fuck you”. After you get the system and play your old game the Xbox One just shit at you like mother-fucking mike. After shiting on you everything in the world that shit at you shit. In your dream the Xbox one go into it shit everywhere around you and when you wake up. BANG that how shit face is born and i am one of those Shit head, that why i hate this new system and by god if i every have on in my house there well be a real life shit head people have to deal with. Thank you for reading it Jame and Mike and please give me your thought on it? Have a mother-fucking eagle and mike day. Cause when i see people buy it, the whole world be big shit had to deal it.

I really enjoy watching these videos! You guys seem to genuinely love just hanging out and playing some games. I would love to see you guys riff some classic movies from either James’ or Mike’s collection. I think it would provide some awesome laughs, and some great questions and theories about the films themselves. Please consider riffing some films because I would love to watch, and I feel you guys would be great at it! Thanks for all of the great videos, and I can’t wait each week to see the new James and Mike Play ones.

I had heard of this console before, but the oldest thing we had when I started playing video games was the NES. This was an amusing video. Sometimes its fun to just sit back and watch someone else play video games. And with you guys its not the epic journey that is the “Let’s Play.” While it was fun to sit there for a couple of days in my free time to watch someone play all the way through Skyward Sword, its even nicer to ust see you guys to just sit back for a little while and play the games you had fun with in the past. Excellent video! I also totally agree with Mike. Keep that console and game in working order and let it be the first game your daughter plays!!!

You guys had a long video game marathon the day you shot all of these reviews. I’m guessing Mike smoked some meth beforehand for an extra boost, that’s the only way he could defeat the mighty James Rolfe.

Hey James and Mike. Liked this episode of James and Mike play the most since it featured a little more detail about games and their history. I also loved the AVGN episodes best that showed off gadgets here and there, gave background about companies marketing and development, and about the whole game itself.
Hope you can continue in this direction further.

Oh and one thing: PLEASE master the sound of your videos to 0db. I always have to get my volume all up and then these commercials come on afterwards, and of course they are as loud as possible and scream at me like they want me deaf. So please try to care a bit more about the sound. I would even do it if you’re too lazy^^

Just picked up an Odyssey II mint in the box along with UFO!, K.C. Munchkin!, Football!, Baseball!, Alpine Skiing!, Boling!-Basketball!, and the Quest For the Rings (all of which in mint boxes) at a garage sale for $80. This video couldn’t be better timed to get me pumped to play it. BTW what’s with all the exclamation points in their titles? Where the games that bad they had to instill the excitement to play them? Great video guys, love the new intro.

Hey James, I’d love to see you do a review for the Atari GameLine, the download service that allowed you to primitively download new Atari games with a modem. Or rather just do a review over Internet services consoles offered like the SNES Satelliview and Sega Channel.

Hey James, do you think you could do a James & Mike Play of an Atari 8-bit computer, if you have one? I have the Atari 400, the first system -I- ever played, and essentially what the Atari 5200 SHOULD have been. From what I understand, the Atari 8-bit games were identical to the 5200 games, but the cartridges weren’t interchangeable between systems, you had to buy the right cartridge, and the joysticks, at least the joysticks I have, were way better than the 5200. Mine are your standard joystick, just a red stick, with a fire button the pad and on the stick itself, with a switch to tell it which button you’d rather use.

I think you glossed over a bit that Quest for the Rings was actually a full-on Lord of the Rings knock-off boardgame. It even required one person to be a D&D-style dungeon master. That kit was pretty awesome.

There were three of these elaborate boardgame style games. There was some stock exchange-themed game we never owned, but we really liked Conquest of the World.

A small detail you seemed to miss is that most of these games had separate modes — like you guys laughed at Speedway running ridiculously slow, but if you picked a different mode it’d have been a fair bit more challenging.

Amazing coincidence. The Odyssey 2, and Speedway, was also my first video game experience, as well as almost the oldest memory I retain. Somehow we ended up with that console instead of the technically superior (and then already a year old) Atari.

In Spinout, you’re supposed to hold down the button to drive faster. It’s still not a challenge as such. Bizarrely, even at that age, I figured out that you can use the dotted line at the midway point to improve lap times, as the game relies on the cars’ contact with said line to judge whether a car has actually done a lap. This means you can touch the midpoint line, do a 180, return to start, and it still counts a lap. Give it a try.

Hey Mike – regarding Godzilla Star Wars, the Star Wars: The Clone Wars two-parter “The Zillo Beast/The Zillo Beast Strikes Back” is pretty close. A Godzilla-like monster called The Zillo Beast is captured on its home planet and is brought to Coruscant where it breaks loose and the Jedi and Palpatine try to bring it down. Pretty great episodes with a lot of nods to Godzilla.

Awesome video! I played this console at Retro Revival Event a couple of weeks ago. I think you two would have loved it. Pretty much every console from the last 35 years of video games available to play with different games to try out. Not to mention classic arcade games free to play. Even had the Sega SG-1000, Sega’s first console. I also got to play Space Invaders with fruit.